Re-enactment enthusiast launches Iott donation site

A local re-enactment enthusiast is calling on re-enactors worldwide to come to the defense of Rich Iott.

The Congressional candidate has been under fire recently after photographs surfaced of him wearing a Nazi uniform at re-enactment events.

John McAvoy of Toledo, a member of Children of Liberty, sent the e-mail asking re-enactors to visit his website, www.reenactorsforiott.com, or his Facebook page, “Re-enactors support Rich Iott,” to support the candidate and defend their shared hobby.

The sites, which are McAvoy’s personal projects and not affiliated with any group, went public Oct. 14.

“Its my hope that this will spike the incoming contributions, and also serve to counter the spin blogs,” McAvoy wrote in the e-mail, subject-lined “Re-enactors name trashed because he participated in WWII re-enactment.”

Rich Iott

“Our historical hobby is being trashed by some slimeball claiming just because someone performs the part of a German Officer during a re-enactment, then they must be a Nazi sympathizer,” the e-mail continues.

The e-mail and website point the blame at Iott’s opponent, Marcy Kaptur.

“She is trying to assassinate his character by claiming he’s a Nazi sympathizer, and has gone to the extreme of painting Swastika on Rich Iott signs,” the e-mail reads.

The website includes a place to send donations — “ whatever you can afford to help Rich Iott defend his name and our hobby,” McAvoy writes in the e-mail.

As of Oct. 15, the group had 27 fans on Facebook.

McAvoy said he has been involved in restoring historical Soviet and German aircraft for decades, and participates in air battle re-enactments.

“I’ve been talking to re-enactors on the phone and each one of them is just as pissed off as me,” McAvoy told Toledo Free Press. “Each one has assured me they will support Rich and fight this thing.”

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9 Responses to “Re-enactment enthusiast launches Iott donation site”

Steven Monro

Rich Iott has to win this election. When he does, he will join numerous other concerned patriots who are tired and frankly scared of what all the good old boy politicians are doing to us and our country. They hide behind the old we are doing it for you banner while they further erode our freedom and take our income for their power building and income padding practices.

Kommissar Kaptur cannot run for re-election on her failed record so she resorts to using an ‘October Surprise’ against Iott.

I hope she isn’t rewarded by the people of Toledo for this disgraceful character assassination, but it won’t matter in the long run. As of Election Day, she’ll either be in the House minority or she’ll be looking for a non-public sector job for the first time in her pathetic life.

No surprises here. Just another group funded by secret corporate donors like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or Citizens for Prosperity. Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in January (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission)Republicans are out spending Democrats 5 to 1. This is just another attempt at fooling the American public. It screams for the need of true campaign finance reform.

The name of the organization is “Americans for Prosperity.” Get your talking points straight. American citizens routinely donate to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That’s legal. The Chamber of Commerce is not required to release the names of donors. Neither is the NAACP or other liberal advocacy groups. So dial down the selective anger.

How about this, moonbats: when Obama releases his medical records, undergraduate records, law school records, Illinois bar admission records, foreign travel records, etc. etc. etc., then maybe we can have a discussion about transparency.

Also, Dear Leader Obama had millions of foreign dollars flow into his 2008 presidential campaign via credit card payments made over the internet. Do you libs really want to open the “secret donor” can of worms? Didn’t think so.

Yes Americans for Prosperity founded by David H. Koch of Koch Industries. The group’s president is Tim Phillips, a Republican campaign strategist who helped organize tea party protests. This group sponsors all types of libertarian groups.Maybe this Reenactor group is being funded by outside groups.http://www.factcheck.org/2010/08/americans-for-prosperity/

Yes I defend Richard Iott’s right to expression as much as I am ashamed he is from my great state of Ohio, am horrified he has the gall to run for office in the heartland and also as quickly as I would gouge my own eyes out before I would vote for him. Iott does need to take the American flag pin he wears on his lapel off and slap on that swastika that he proudly defends. He needs to stand behind the fact he is not just reenacting a battle as some try and say, but he actually belongs to a group-a band of like minded Nazi brothers. It is his right as an American to voice his love and awe for an imperialistic militiary power that swept through Europe, decimating not only human life but cultural and historic centers. It is an anti-america sentiment to find that a great thing but not anti-american to voice your opinion no matter how contrary to the precious values of this nation. One thing he is right about is it was a group of people fighting for freedom and rights- the freedom to wipe others out and take their rights along with their land and sovereignty and so on and so on.

If you’ve never visited a re-enactment, then you don’t know what it is.

If you don’t like Iotts politics, thats one thing, But to Characterize him as a Nazi becase he’s a Historian, Well, I think the statement from the 82nd Airborne Division Assoc says it all;

…”Any person or political group who believes there is some bizarre hidden Nazi agenda by reenactors is not only ignorant of the facts but using false representation to foster their own political ambition and beneath contempt”…

…”To use an educational hobby which provides a teaching tool for all Americans in some twisted political game is not only omitting the true facts, but a blatant lie by conversion of the truth”…